09/09/2026
If you change one thing this week, change this.
On appetite-suppressing medication you eat less of everything — and that includes the protein your body uses to protect muscle. When protein runs short, your body takes what it needs from the muscle you already have. The scale still moves. You still get smaller. But you're losing the wrong tissue, and it's the tissue that keeps your metabolism working and keeps you strong at seventy.
Roughly 100 grams a day, most days, is the target we work toward with most patients. It is genuinely hard when you're not hungry. It is also the difference between weight loss you keep and weight loss that comes back with interest.
Ask us at your next visit what your number should be — it isn't the same for everyone.
Newnan · physlim.com
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